Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 17:35:10 -0500
From: Natalie Maynor
Subject: Bounced Mail
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> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:56:36 -0400
> From: "L-Soft list server at UGA (1.8b)"
> Subject: ADS-L: error report from ADMN.SHS.NEBO.EDU
>
>The enclosed message, found in the ADS-L mailbox and shown under the spool ID
>0762 in the system log, has been identified as a possible delivery error notice
>for the following reason: "Sender:", "From:" or "Reply-To:" field pointing to
>the list has been found in mail body.
>
> ----------------- Message in error (131 lines) -------------------------
> From: Tom Uharriet
> Organization: Springville High School
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:56:28 MST
> Subject: authors wanted
>
> Please excuse me for forwarding this post back to the whole list. I
> tried to send it directly to an interested member of this group, but
> had it bounce back to me.
> -TU
>
> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> >
> > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:47:58 -0400
> > From: Allan Metcalf
> > Comments: cc: billk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]atlas.uga.edu
> >
> > The following is a legitimate notice from the offices of the American Council
> > of Learned Societies (to which ADS belongs). - Allan Metcalf
> >
> > - -----------------------------------------------
> >
> > OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS IS IN NEED OF AUTHORS TO PROVIDE
> > BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES ON FAMOUS AMERICANS FOR
> > THE _AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY_
> >
> > The _American National Biography_, which is to be published by
> > Oxford in 1998 in conjunction with the American Council of Learned
> > Societies, will be a twenty-volume reference set comprising more
> > than 19,000 articles on historical figures from all fields. We
> > have been commissioning articles since 1990, and most of the
> > articles (particularly major figures) have already been assigned.
> > However, there are important figures in every area that remain
> > without authors and it is our intention to locate writers for these
> > remaining subjects.
> >
> > Historical figures from as far back as the earliest European
> > explorations of North America up to the very recent past will be
> > included. Those whose contributions to American culture and
> > history that have often been neglected in the past will have a
> > strong presence in the ANB. Along with the most famous
> > politicians, military leaders, writers, and ministers, people from
> > all walks of life will be illuminated in the ANB's pages: social
> > reformers and filibusters, geologists and fundamentalists,
> > phrenologists and psychiatrists, classicists and jazz musicians,
> > baseball players and bankers, among other categories of occupation,
> > notoriety, and renown. Memorializing their lives will reveal the
> > country's ongoing diversity, its essential pluralism.
> >
> >
> > The subjects of articles have been selected by the general editor,
> > John A. Garraty (Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History,
> > Columbia University) and his immediate staff; a group of associate
> > editors, some 193 eminent scholars and nonacademic experts located
> > around the country and abroad; various other scholars who have
> > taken a keen interest in the project; and, with the advice of both
> > associate editors and contributors, the four project editors in the
> > Cary, North Carolina, office of Oxford University Press.
> >
> > Most articles average 1000 words in length (exclusive of the
> > bibliography), at $50.00 per essay (a result of funding from grants
> > obtained by the ACLS in the late 1980s). Our scheduled publication
> > date is late 1998, but we must have essays in our office much
> > earlier for editing purposes. Because we deal with so many
> > contributors (over 10,000), we ask them to establish their own due
> > dates depending on the number of essays they wish to contribute and
> > their schedules. (For 1st time contributors, the first essay must
> > arrive within three to four months so it can be evaluated prior to
> > making additional assignments final.)
> >
> > A sample manuscript is attached to this announcement to give you a
> > better idea of the style, format, and content of ANB articles.
> >
> > When manuscripts are submitted, they are sent to appropriate
> > associate editors for review. They then are passed along to
> > Professor Garraty's office at Columbia, where they are approved or
> > returned to authors for revision. The approved manuscripts go back
> > to Oxford University Press in Cary to be factchecked and copyedited
> > under the supervision of the project's copy chief and two
> > assistants. Authors see the copyedited versions of their
> > manuscripts and give their approval or request changes. After
> > copyedited manuscripts are returned to the Cary office, they are
> > put in final shape for typesetting.
> >
> > Because the project has been ongoing for nearly six years, we have,
> > for the most part, already approached the obvious senior scholars
> > for the areas being covered. Thus, in our attempts to broaden the
> > network of ANB authors, WE WELCOME SUGGESTIONS OF AND VOLUNTEERS
> > FROM JUNIOR FACULTY, POST DOCTORATES, AND PHD CANDIDATES who are
> > seeking to publish in a scholarly work like the ANB.
> >
> > Lists of currently unassigned subjects are available in the
> > following categories:
> > Precolonial and Colonial History Politics, the Military and
> > Diplomacy (separate lists by era: 1763-1815, 1815-1850,
> > 1850-1878, 1878-1914, 1914-1945, 1945-1995), Religion, Education,
> > Business, Law, Medicine, Science and Technology, Social Sciences,
> > Social Reform, Literature, Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts,
> > Performing Arts, Sports, and Miscellaneous Persons
> >
> > To obtain a copy of one or more of these lists, please email or
> > write to:
> > Available Subjects
> > American National Biography 2001
> > Evans Road Cary, NC 27513
> > Internet Inquiries to: anb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]oup-usa.org
> >
> > Please include your name and mailing address (email and regular
> > mail) and a brief summary of your writing/research experience.
> >
> > ------- End of Forwarded Message